ASCLEPIADES

Salve, M! Salve, K! It was not so easy, believe me. Good luck, I guess. I will have to ask for your help (M or K or GPM or SOMEONE!). I'm still not able to upload the image (what a shame!). The best I can do is to leave a link. So... No more bridges, huh? Hmmm... and what about an arch? What do you think of THIS BABY? Good luck!

Salve, C! This is the kind of suspicious stories that you hear any time a colonial power finds resistance to its conquests. It is always a sweeter tale if you liberate a conquered people from a tyrant than if you had done it for mere greediness. (Sounds familiar?). You clearly don't give any credit to the accounts of the native people (once again, you could follow the last link, or you could do your own search). Good luck. PS: I haven't seen the film "Zulu" (1964, at the end of the colonial period); from what I have read, it appears to be a good film (supposedly the 8th best war film) but historically inaccuracies had been reoeatedly noted. It is certainly not an African testimony. I suppose that it is like taking

Salve, C! That statement is clearly a mistake. Obviously, the Caledonian border was farther to the North than any continental Roman post, but Trimontium was even South to the Antonine Wall. The most septentrional confirmed Roman construction is on Stracathro (Angus) at a latitude of 56

Hmm... quite interesting. Salve and thank you for your kind answer, BH!

Salve, Doc, and thank you! One can always learn new tricks. I have never tried that way.

Salve! I think that any religion's head always declares that his teachings are, by definition, the only truth, especially when he is talking to his own parish. We should remember Pope John Paul II was considered conservative in comparison with his predecessors (for example, about the Liberation Theology movement), and also Paul VI when compared with John XXIII, the Pope that convoked Vatican II. I guess that what explains the different strategies is not so much the personality of each Pope as the evolution of the global conditions; in the sixties, the Catholic Church was much more stable and then it tried to make links with other denominations for becoming more "catholic" ("Universal"). Today, as its desertion index is much bigger, and as a source of this desertion is considered to be the disappointment of many traditionalist Catholics, the Church seems to be trying to attract them by drawing its line against other denominations. Only time will determine if this is the right tactic.

Ancient teachers used to beat their students for even tiny offenses. Practicing one's rhetorical skills on one's pedagogue would have been posed a physical risk. XX Century teachers used to beat their students for even tiny offenses up to WWII and even after, and I'm pretty sure that still happens in many places in our world.

Salve! According to Pausanias, ( book 3 chapter 17 section 2) the patron deity of Sparta was Athena Chalkioikos "of the Brazen House": "[2] Here is built a sanctuary of Athena, who is called both City-protecting and Lady of the Bronze House. The building of the sanctuary was begun, they say, by Tyndareus. On his death his children were desirous of making a second attempt to complete the building, and the resources they intended to use were the spoils of Aphidna. They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that the Lacedaemonians made of bronze both the temple and the image of Athena. The builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, who also composed Dorian lyrics, including a hymn to the goddess." (circa 500 BC).

Salve, Mr. Dalby! I think that your kind and extensive answer clearly states up your position and that it is going to be very helpful to me for making one on my own. Thank you and good luck with your book (obviously, I pretend to buy it).

Salve, M (aka Evan)! Thank you for your kind and extensive explanation; it's going to be extremely useful for me. I think that the contribution of classical poetry to Latin phonetic reconstruction would be far greater than that of the prose, as you may have a reasonable idea of its rhyming rules.

Here ia a quote from a post of member no. 109, URSUS: Jul 4 2006, 04:28 PM Post #35 "It would be nice though if we could discuss Christianity without: * Protestants waving the banner of Solo Sciptura against Catholics and Orthodox (to be blunt, as far as I am concerned the Protestant viewpoint is off topic since it has nothing to do with the Christianity of the Roman Empire) * Agnostics who feel the need to make rather rude comments about Christianity no matter the situation .... or to make rude comments about religion in general. Bonus points if they somehow manage to tie in the evils of organized religion with the politics of the Bush Administration. And yes I suppose sometimes Pagans can get snippy when it comes to Christianity, though I see far less of it than the above two. Everytime a discussion on Christianity is started it degenerates into the above pattern, it seems. Those who sincerely want to discuss Christianity as a historical and cultural reflection of the Roman Empire have to suffer those on all sides who have an axe to grind. " Wiser words were hardly ever said. I bring these words of precaution because it seems that this thread is going to talk about the relations between different denominations, a highly candent topic.

Salve, FG! I don't think you have any problem at all, it's simply nonsense. For example, HERE IS A GOOD LINK. Some extracts; "The universal acceptance of bathing as a central event in daily life belongs to the Roman world and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that at the height of the empire, the baths embodied the ideal Roman way of urban life." "Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the empire the custom was to open the bathhouses to women during the early part of the day" "Mixed bathing was generally frowned upon, although the fact that various emperors repeatedly forbade it seems to indicate that the prohibitions did not always work." Congratulations for the success of your books and series! Go on and good luck!

Salve, M! My guess is that it would be the church of Saint Pierre in Antioch (Antiochia of Orontes, today Antakya, Turkey). Salve, K! You're welcome, my pleasure.

Asclepiades ("son of Asclepios", Greek god of medicine, or something like that) was a common name in the Hellenistic Asia Minor, especially common, as you can imagine, among physicians. The most famous was the first one, A. of Prusa (or Bithynia), supposedly the first Greek physician with a successful practice at Rome (end of 2nd Century BC). I choose this name because it was my first available selection. Thank you for your kind invitation to this thread, GPM.

Both recipes (yours and mine) require frying extensively. Without it the dishes would be unrecognizable. I understand that frying is not possible with earthenware.

Thank you,U. IOU another one.

As is commonly the case for colonial wars, that image of Shaka probable comes from his enemies, specially the accounts of Nathaniel Isaccs and Henry Finn. You could think in Mithridates as a similar case for Rome Modern historians show a much more sympathetic image, as a great military and political leader. HERE is an example.

I think this is the third thread related to Hatshepsut I have read in the last days. Obviously, all of us are waiting for the Discovery's special scheduled in two days. As there are big names in the play and even maybe some political factors, anything that comes out is expected to be explosive, and not only to the archeological world. I think that some of the key elements which are going to be hot topic in the next weeks will be the genetic tests and the validation of the identification of the mummies of ALL the members of the XVIII Egyptian dynasty involved in this investigation (for example, Ahmes-Nefertari, purported grandmother of Hatshepsut that shows possible Negroid iconographical features), as they will be mutually supportive.

I am going to rise my hand for the Iranian peoples, Parthians and Sassanides (I suppose they are not covered in the "Asia Minor" section), as they were presumably the only unsurpassable neighbour state for our kids.

Salve! As K is asking for more and more, HERE is a lot of the best material for your nightmares, GPM. Unfortunately, the website is in Spanish, but the third link under the head "PONTES" goes to an excellent chapter in English. Be careful, technical translation is not always easy. This beauty is certainly the Ponte Velho (sometimes "Velha"; "Old Bridge" in Portuguese) at Vila (one L) Formosa ("beautiful village"), in the municipality of Alter do Ch

The contributions to this thread are incredibly interesting for a number of reasons. Latin may not be a dead language, but Classical Latin is a dead as classical Sanskrit. The problem of all dead languages is that there is no way to know for sure its phonetics. In my university there were no less than three options: the "Italian way", the "French way" and the "Spanish way". It is very possible that all 3 are wrong. I prefer the Italian one, but only because of its taste.

Im trying to get some collyrium images sourced , but that might be tricky. I will post if I get a lead. The use of makeup cross gender is interesting , given that we have a society where Judaeo-Christian notions of body shame are absent (certainly in the late Republican era at the very least) and modern "definitions" of sexuality are absent this would be worth some study.The use of cosmetics in other cultures and historical epochs certainly informs us that women were not the sole users of such items The chemical make up of grooming products and any magical/medicinal virtues would likewise be an interesting area. Ancient Roman cosmetic cream unearthed Salve! Maybe this link can be helpful.

Salve, Doc! The problem with this recipe fon the ancient mesoamericans would have been not so much the absence of oil, broth and sorrel, but the total lack of metalic cookware.

"MSPs called to support Roman wall" in the same link, and if you follow it: "Roman soldiers descended on the Scottish Parliament to encourage MSPs to back an application for the Antonine Wall to gain World Heritage Status." Interesting, isn't it?

WOW... What can I say, dude? It's amazing! Thank you, M.